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Just like the title goes, my laptop gets about 50~60 ram usage while idle, even though it has 16 gigs of ram. Tried checking with the task manager doesn't seem to spot anything going on. Also, I've tried fixing the registry, disabling startup applications, defragmenting drives, turning off Sysmain, as said on the Internet, but they all didn't change anything. Is there any way to fix this while not clean installing windows again?
My laptop is currently on Windows 11 build 22000,
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Same issue on a new Surface Laptop.
Very high heat output, fan noise and memory consumption - with no programs visible in task manager that I can attribute the issue to.
Machine is essentially only being used for Slack, Teams and a Web Browser with less than 10-tabs. Only 1.5Gb of RAM usage can be accounted for of the nearly 10GB currently being used.
It just measures how much RAM it should use. With 16 gb ram windows 11 becomes faster, because it stops to save ram. Instead, it eats much ram without any problem. Devs should do something, I don't want to have 64 gb ram to just run Windows 11. Less likely they are gonna do something with this. They'll just forget about it like dream. No one cares about optimization in present, sadly.
I have the same issue. just reseted my pc and still the same, I need to find a way to go back to windows 10. how can I do it? I have a dell g7 with 16Gb of ram, and right after reseting my pc, it started with 43% of ram usage!!! basicaly I cannot run any other apps, or it get clogged so fast. Now I wanna go back to windows 10, but apparently I had only 10 days to do it (*#&($*!!!!!
just switch to 10. cz 11 is not optimal yet for ram and CPU usage.
Try doing what this post suggests: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/my-computer-uses-50-of-my-ram-while-idle/0457b542-d119-4347-8ea7-f28d42832aef
